Famous quotes containing the word strange:
“That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: Reason, a thorn in Revelations side.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“You will go a long journey,
In a strange bed take rest,
And a dark girl will kiss you....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, as sand eddies in a whirlwind.”
—Dante Alighieri (12651321)
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